The king behind the empress

Chapter 389 Water attack?

It took three days for Mo Zizai's [-] Yuzhi army to arrive at the city of Yining. The city of Yining, which had received the news before, had already closed its six gates tightly and waited for it.

"It's not good to fight."

Looking at Yining City with its gates closed, Mo Zizai couldn't help but frown. The last time he attacked Zhaoyuan City, it was entirely due to the lack of defenders in Zhaoyuan City that they were able to fight so quickly with a few golden bodies. Come down, but now in Yining City, there are [-] soldiers alone, and it will definitely not work to use the method last time.

But if it is hard to gnaw, then the casualties paid by the Yuzhi army will be great.

"It's really tricky."

Yang Yanzhang also frowned, Yining City was not only high and deep, but also surrounded by moats, if they hadn't brought enough siege equipment this time, they might not even be able to climb the city walls.

In fact, with the strength of the Yuzhi army, they can advance, attack, retreat, and defend. If they are not afraid of wasting time, they can kill them alive without any casualties if they surround the city.

But now the situation in Dazhou is very turbulent, and it is impossible for the Yuzhi army to spend so much time here, so the only way is to fight quickly, even if the casualties are greater.

"Don't let the Red Flame Dragonriders participate in the battle this time, let them fill in the moat first, and then guard the periphery."

Mo Zizai thought for a while, and then said: "It is definitely not advisable to attack by force now, so wait for the news in the city to see if there is a chance."

Although with the accelerator in hand, even if he wiped out all the Yuzhi troops in his hand, Mo Zizai would not be able to pull up a team with strong combat effectiveness in a short time, but these Yuzhi troops were all real people, not individual ones. number.

The most important thing is that these are still his own people, so unless necessary, Mo Zizai will not let them go to this fortified city.

"Alright."

Yang Yanzhang nodded his head and asked the Red Flame Dragon Knights under his command to fill in the moat, while he himself took out the map of Yining City, and after looking at it for a while, he said to Mo Zizai: "My lord, let me first Take someone to check the surrounding terrain."

"terrain?"

Mo Zizai was a little puzzled. The scouts had already checked out the terrain before the army moved out. Did Yang Yanzhang go to see it himself?
But seeing Yang Yanzhang's insistence, he didn't say anything. Anyway, the defenders in the city would definitely not dare to come out, and Yang Yanzhang's presence or absence didn't matter much, "Okay, then you can go."

With Yang Yanzhang's strength, Mo Zizai didn't need to worry about his safety, so he saw him leading a group of people galloping towards the distance, so he didn't ask any more questions, and walked around Yining City by himself, thinking See if there are any exploits available.

Although Yining City is big, under the footpower of Mo Zizai Lie Yan, he turned around in just a short while.

"Difficult."

After reading it, Mo Zizai returned to the tent and shook his head. It has to be said that Hu Ming still has two skills in fighting. The defenders in the city are heavily guarded, and the ordnance is evenly arranged, and there is no obvious dead angle at all.

If these few golden bodies break into the city wall, they may not be able to exert much strength and will be forced down by those bed crossbows and arc arrows, which is meaningless at all.

"Are you really going to attack?"

When Mo Zizai was in trouble in the camp, Yang Yanzhang who had gone out to survey the terrain rushed back, "My lord, I have gained something here."

"Ok?"

Mo Zizai was a little surprised. Didn't Yang Yanzhang go to survey the terrain?Where did the harvest come from, could it be that the scouts in Yining City were caught?
"My lord, wait a moment."

Seeing that Mo Zizai was puzzled, Yang Yanzhang did not answer directly, but asked someone to make a lifelike sand table based on the terrain near Yining City.

After it was done, Yang Yanzhang pointed to a river on the sand table and said to Mo Zizai, "My lord, please look here."

"Thousand Waves River?"

Mo Zizai looked at the river Yang Yanzhang was pointing to in puzzlement, not understanding what he wanted to say.

Yuanling County is a plain, with open terrain and few mountains. Generally speaking, water is indispensable in this kind of terrain, and Yuanling County is no exception.

In Yuanling County, there are three big rivers in total, namely Xiling River, Datu River, and the Qianlang River referred to by Yang Yanzhang.

These three rivers are magnificent, from north to south, they converge at the place that is about to leave Yuanling County, and merge into the largest river in Dazhou, the Jiuqu River.

And Yining City was originally built here because it was close to the Qianlang River, which was good for irrigation. Even the moat of Yining City was drawn from the Qianlang River.

"My lord doesn't know, it's the autumn flood season, the Qianlang River is flooded, and the water level is very high now."

Yang Yanzhang took a charcoal pencil, drew a line on the map, and directly connected the Qianlang River with Yining City, "If the downstream of the Qianlang River is blocked and the river water is diverted to Yining City, then Yining City will In an instant, it became a vast ocean.”

"Sigh~"

Hearing Yang Yanzhang's words, Mo Zizai couldn't help but gasped, and then glanced at Yang Yanzhang with weird eyes. This guy looks fair and clean, but his heart is not ordinary. How many people in Yining City? One hundred thousand people are here.

Once the water is released, the city of Yining will be soaked, so how can the hundreds of thousands of people survive?

And he didn't understand it before, but now he knows that the matter of Shui Gong is not something that can be decided just by talking about it.

For example, when the second master flooded the Seventh Army in Fancheng, he was very happy after the flood, but the result was that Fancheng had no harvest for at least a whole year.

Of course, it is inevitable to suffer losses in wars. To win and flood Fancheng is nothing at all. After all, the Three Kingdoms were in chaos at that time. A piece of grain, so flooding Fancheng to win the battle, it really couldn't be more cost-effective.

But the situation is different now. This Yining City was originally his own city. Although it is now in Hu Ming's hands, he is fully confident that he can take it down. What's more, Dazhou is currently short of food and cannot stand such a waste. what.

So if he broke the embankment and flooded the city in order to capture Yiyang City, then he might as well go to the Yuzhi Army to forcefully attack it, which would be more cost-effective anyway.

"Isn't this right? The loss is too great, and the gain outweighs the loss."

Mo Zizai shook his head again and again, and after thinking for a while, he said, "Although the water level of the Qianlang River is high, but it is such a long distance, it is not realistic to lure it here and flood the city of Yining, right?"

The craftsmen who can choose the site for the city, whether in the previous life or now, are masters of Fengshui, but this Fengshui does not only refer to metaphysics, but more to the knowledge of geography, so these professionals The city site chosen by the people in the city is definitely not something that can be flooded casually.

Otherwise, in the previous life, there would not be only those few water attack battles left in history.

"Just because most people can't do it doesn't mean we can't do it."

Hearing what Mo Zizai said, Yang Yanzhang couldn't help laughing, "We have [-] physical martial arts practitioners. I can't guarantee anything else, but cutting mountains and rivers is not difficult for us."

"Speaking of which, the reason why the former emperor was invincible back then was because he used the Fengwei army to the extreme. You must know that the style of the Fengwei army back then was unpredictable. They almost never participated in such tough battles."

Yang Yanzhang is a student of Mo Congyi, so he knows more about Mo Congyi's deeds than Mo Zizai. Back then, Mo Congyi relied on the Fengwei Army in his hands to conquer mountains and break rivers, almost wanting to appear somewhere Where it will appear, the enemy has no way of predicting.

And such a mysterious army, powerful and powerful, with more than [-] auxiliary troops linked up, no one can stop it at all.

So from a certain point of view, the current Mo Zizai suffers because the number of troops is too small, and there is no need for more. With 10 people, you can see which aristocratic family dares to bark its teeth.

"Oh, that's right."

Hearing what Yang Yanzhang said, Mo Zizai nodded in amazement. For ordinary soldiers, diverting the Qianlang River is undoubtedly a huge project, but for the Yuzhi Army, this matter is much easier. It is estimated that if With all the hands, a new river can be dug out in less than seven days.

As for what Yang Yanzhang said about the past of the Fengwei Army, he was too lazy to ask. Anyway, with the accelerator in hand, sooner or later, the Yuzhi Army will be able to expand to more than 10 people. By then, it will surpass his father's achievements, and it will not be a matter of minutes thing.

"There's still something wrong."

After thinking about it for a while, Mo Zizai shook his head and said: "The loss is too great, the gain outweighs the gain, let's take it slow first, wait for Xu Boyuan's situation, if it fails, it will not be too late to consider whether to attack or flood."

"My lord misunderstood me."

Yang Yanzhang explained with a smile on his face: "I don't mean to attack with water, but to make a gesture of attack with water and let them know that we have the ability to attack with water."

"Ok?"

Hearing what Yang Yanzhang said, Mo Zizai reacted instantly, "You mean to force them out of the city?"

"Yes."

Yang Yanzhang nodded, and said: "Yining City is not high in the first place, if the Qianlang River is diverted, how can Yining City survive?"

"At that time, their fate may be even more miserable than being destroyed by us."

"So as long as we make a gesture of diverting water to attack the city, I don't believe that the people in the city can still sit still, and if they abandon the city because of this..."

When Yang Yanzhang said this, a confident look appeared on his face, "Don't say it's [-] soldiers, even if it's [-], I promise to let them come and go."

"rational."

Mo Zizai nodded approvingly, and then ordered: "In this case, move the camp back three miles to make room for them to send troops."

"Then take out half of the soldiers of the Yuzhi Army, start from the bottom of Yining City, and dig the river in the direction of the Qianlang River."

"Here!"

Seeing that Mo Zizai agreed to his plan, Yang Yanzhang agreed, and then went straight out to rearrange the camp.

His plan is a conspiracy. It is obvious that the people in the city will see that they want to flood the city. He wants to see if Hu Ming knows this situation, can he sit still, and even if he can sit still? He didn't believe that those aristocratic families in the city could still sit still.

……

On the top of the city, Hu Ming was observing Mo Zizai's military situation. When he was watching well, he suddenly found that Mo Zizai's army had retreated three miles. They all left too.

"What's going on, did something happen somewhere else?"

Seeing this situation, Hu Ming's first thought was that there was a new situation in Da Zhou, and Mo Zizai was about to withdraw his troops. It was only after a while that he realized that Mo Zizai didn't mean to withdraw troops, but went to the general camp. Withdrew three miles.

"What is this operation?"

Hu Ming looked a little puzzled, how could he attack the city at such a distance? Could it be that the soldiers had to run for several miles before attacking the city?
Moreover, the camp is so far away, if there is any accident during the siege, it is impossible for Mo Zizai to withdraw his troops back to the camp for defense, which is unreasonable.

Looking at the situation, Hu Ming was a little puzzled. He looked up at some family heads around him, and asked, "What do you think Mo Zizu means?"

"It's probably because I'm afraid."

A Patriarch glanced at the army outside the city with some disdain, and said: "Seeing that our Yining City is difficult to attack, it is likely that they are retreating, so stay away and make a show. They will probably withdraw in a few days." , nothing to worry about."

"Huh~"

Hu Ming glanced at the patriarch who was speaking with eyes like an idiot, and then looked away from him. He is also an idiot, but he thought of asking them. They are better at fighting among themselves than anyone else. , it would be too flattering to them.

As if seeing the disdain in Hu Ming's eyes, the Patriarch of an aristocratic family said lightly: "No matter what Mo Zizai wants to do, we just need to guard Yining City and not go out. There are walls and so many ordnance defenses. , nothing he can do."

"That's true."

Hu Ming glanced at the patriarch in surprise, he didn't expect that there were some smart people among these people.

Sensing the change in Hu Ming's eyes, the patriarch didn't say anything. It's good that they like to fight for power and profit, but if they think they are all idiots because of this, then it would be too small to look down on them.

To be able to run a family, if he is really an idiot, the family has already been divided up, how can he survive until now, it's just that Hu Ming has prejudice against them, and they don't bother to explain it.

Of course, it is not without exception.

Thinking of this, the Patriarch moved his steps calmly, moving away from the Patriarch who spoke before.

This idiot, if it weren't for his old man's death, his family would have been wiped out by him long ago, how could he still be qualified to speak nonsense here.

However, I heard that his old man is not in good health, and it is estimated that he will die in the next few years. At that time, he will have to think about how to tear off the biggest piece of meat from his house.

Hu Ming didn't know what these patriarchs were thinking, he looked at the city wall for a while, but he didn't see anything, because he was worried about Mo Zizai's tricks, so he was only here for inspection, so he simply stayed on the city wall Can't go up.

It was only in the afternoon that he suddenly realized something was wrong, because many people came out of Mo Zizai's camp, but they were not holding weapons, but some simple shovels and pickaxes.

"They, are they going to dig a tunnel into the city?"

Hu Ming looked at the soldiers of the Yuzhi Army in disbelief. What kind of genius came up with this idea? Don't they know that the bottom of these major cities is reinforced with special stones?

They want to dig a tunnel into the city from below, and they dig so blatantly, aren't they too naive?
(End of this chapter)